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Pretend Everett True hasn’t been singing the praises of Daniel Johnston for 15 years. Pretend you’ve never heard the covers by 'alternative' acts on major labels asserting their integrity, and you can ...
Time Out says Having gone from distributing demos of his music while working at McDonald's to exhibiting his artwork in galleries the world over, Texan painter/singer Daniel Johnston is a true ...
As if that weren't enough, this month also sees the release of Welcome to My World, a new compilation CD, and The Electric Ghosts, a side project.
"Daniel Johnston: I Live My Broken Dreams" gives viewers the chance to understand where Johnston was coming from in these and other aspects of his art and what his impact was all about.
Built to Spill is faced with the task of serving as Daniel’s backing band for the last two shows of his “final tour” in the fall of 2017. How’d the idea for those shows come about?
West Virginia Music Hall of Fame has announced musician, visual artist and “outsider music” pioneer, Daniel Johnston, as a 2025 inductee.
With the technical skillset of a folk-blues fingerstylist, but the heart, soul and effects rig of a raver, Daniel ‘Dafreez’ Johnston is a rare and interesting breed of guitarist.
Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair’s 1989 collaboration It’s Spooky will be reissued for its 30th anniversary, out April 10th via Joyful Noise Recordings. The track “Ashes on the Ground” is out now.
This is my textual version of Daniel Johnston with accompanying illustrations from Cavolo. I’m not really interested in Daniel Johnston. Daniel Johnston has produced his own Daniel Johnston ...
Daniel Johnston, a quirky, tortured fixture of the Austin scene and an inspiration to Kurt Cobain, among many others, has died at 58.